Geometric Representation Theory

Event Information Title: A Poly-Time Knot Polynomial Via Solvable Approximation
Starts: 15:00 on Thursday September 22, 2016
Ends: 17:00 on Thursday September 22, 2016
Location: FI210, Fields Institute, 222 College St.
Speaker: Dror Bar-Natan
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Institution: University of Toronto
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Abstract:

I will construct the first poly-time-computable knot polynomial since Alexander's (1928) by using some new commutator-calculus techniques and a Lie algebra g1 which is at the same time solvable and an approximation of the simple Lie algebra sl2

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